Mount Rose Summit is a
mountain pass located in the
Carson Range
The Carson Range is a spur of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California and western Nevada that starts at Carson Pass and stretches north to the Truckee River near Verdi, Nevada.
Geography
The mountain range is about 50 miles (80 km) long a ...
near
Mount Rose and
Slide Mountain, northeast of
Incline Village
Incline Village is a census-designated place (CDP) on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The population was 8,777 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Reno−Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area. Until the 20 ...
,
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
, United States.
[ Google Earth images.] The pass is traversed by
State Route 431, which is the highest point of the highway and the highest mountain pass in the
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primari ...
that remains open year-round.
The saddle itself features a parking lot and a small building which both serve as a highway stop. A closed dirt road leading to the
Mount Rose Ski Resort ends near the northern section of the summit.
The pass is the low point of the saddle between Slide Mountain and
Tamarack Peak.
References
{{Sierra Nevada
Mountain passes of Nevada
Landforms of Washoe County, Nevada